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I’ve somehow gotten very attached to Chaos and subsequently Tikal and their dynamic. But yeah they are besties and deserve some whimsy

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Decided to turn myself into a mobian :3

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Who would win, guys

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Trying out a more painting like style with a new clown Sonic design

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Rouge the Magician (and future ringmaster)

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Amy Rose the Strongwoman

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Shadow the Daredevil

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Sonic the Clown

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The worms are cooking up a Big Top AU and I’m going insane about it.

So this is loosely based of the marvel circus of crime. The circus is run by eggman, notorious boss in the criminal underground and eccentric ringmaster to the public, who through various means has extorted our colorful cast to be part of his thieving schemes. The feds (GUN) are a constant thorn in the circus’s side but they’re never are able to get any concrete proof, and if they manage to catch someone…let’s just say eggs has his hands everywhere and he’s not afraid to cut loose ends.

Links to the full images

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Song: Could Have Been Me - The Struts

Animation: meee (abbilaura)

IT’S FINALLY FINISHED!!!! After almost 6 weeks of work, my Sonadow Aerial Acrobatics animation to Could Have Been Me is done 😊

Please watch and enjoy, I put a whole lot of love into this!! I’ll put my ramblings about it under the cut so I don’t clog your blogs.

Oh my gosh, what a project.

Let me preface this by saying I am not an animator. I’ve done a couple of like >5s animations before for fun, but this was a WHOLE different beast. I know most of it is really an animatic, but there are some parts where I was doing frame by frame animation (albeit a low fps). I bought Procreate Dreams and learnt A LOT!

Anyway, the story…

This is based LOOSELY on a not-yet-published au (not my au) in which Sonic and Shadow are aerial acrobats. I kind of diverged from that story and made up my own just for this song, but it’s based on that AU (or what I knew of it at the time I started this!)

Sonic is a reckless, self-taught acrobat with no regard for the rules or his own safety. Shadow is a disciplined and academy-trained, but woefully retired, acrobat who left that world behind after Maria’s accident. In this song, Sonic is begging Shadow to join him on the rope. It shocks everyone, Sonic included, when Shadow finally relents and steps onto that rope for the first time in years to perform with him.

I hope you enjoy!!

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Been working on my first animatic for the past two weeks an I’m finally done!!!

Based off the current arc going on in some of the Sonic rp blogs. Mainly involving these @ultimat3-lif3form, @blue-blurrrr, @ghostintheprism

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Some Knuckles doodles with his friend the earth echidna.

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I just discovered that one of the sonic VAs is the narrator for say yes to the dress and my brian does not know how to compute

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Ok a little bit more about eggman this time.

After shadow awakes from the ice and splits form Sonic and tails he’s kinda like living in weird places like forest and caves. I think the poles became two much for him being a constant reminder of Maria. Anyway eventually eggman finds shadow and manipulates him into help with one of his schemes. Eggman is kinda like kuvira and verrik mix where he’s trying to take over and modernize while also using spirits (creatures not just the vines) to power his robots/weapons. He is very in tune with the spirit realm stuff, Maria also potentially having this ability and why shadow would trust him so easily.

Tell us more about the ATLA Au!!!!! Pretty please with a cherry on top! 🙏🍒❤️‍🔥

Well since you asked so nicely :]

So here’s what I’ve thought of so far regarding characters

- Sonic- air bender

- Tails-earth kingdom or fire nation boonies, non bender

- Amy- kyoshi warrior, non bender

- Knuckles- earth, wrestler *cough* the boulder

- Shadow- avatar, water tribe, elements come easy except air as it’s the element of freedom and letting go

- Rouge - fire nation rogue, non bender, blue spirit vibes

So now onto the different versions this first is a little more lighthearted and goofy like atla and the one I’ve given more thought to

Cut because it got long

In this version Shadow is the avatar and a very talented healer living with Gerald and Maria in one of the poles. Maria is still very sick, she and Gerold used to travel the world more when she was younger but had to stop as the the cold and quick access to healers helped slow her condition but never healing it. Luckily after adopting shadow and discovering his talent in bending Maria actually seemed to improve with his treatments. But then at sixteen we discover that shadow is the avatar and must journey to the other nations. Shads is not happy to leave Maria behind even with her condition improving it will surely decline without him. He makes a deal with the sages to be able to visit his tribe every couple of months to keep Maria’s sickness at bay (ie he wouldn’t have gone otherwise).

Anyway time passes shads is studying in the earth kingdom and is making his usual trip back home when finds his tribe had been under attack, there were many casualties including Maria and in his distress he ends up forsaking the world and closing himself off to it and going into the avatar state sealing himself and his village in ice forever trapping them in this moment.

Years (50) pass and a traveling monk, sonic, and his brother, tails, come across the frozen village and shadow, in his frozen state, not yet realizing it’s an actual mobian, in their travels. Tails gets very geeky and wants to do some exploration and excavation on the “perfectly preserved utopia”. (Sonic finds himself gravitating to the “statue” a lot) So they end up staying a while something happens and the ice breaks freeing the avatar. Shads still hates the world and would prefer to go back in ice but can’t call upon the avatar state again. As someone who’s very drawn to the world Sonic is determined to reignite his love for the world meanwhile shadow can’t figure out why this air bender won’t leave him alone. They part ways a lot but somehow always manage to run into each other.

Still working on the antagonist side of things

Fun facts:

Maria is the one who liked to string beads into his quills and made his other hair accessories (even if it was a bit more feminine) and he never stoped wearing them

Shadow is also a very talented ice/speed skater and uses it and a combination of the other elements to help him in his races with Sonic

Even with avatar abilities he sometimes still has trouble with beating sonic in a race

Sonic has been an air bending master from a young age and prefers to travel the world

Sonic does become his air bending teacher

Alright in this next version I think it’s a little more Korra like and a bit more true to sonic canon but I haven’t put too much thought to it, the two have fairly similar characteristics to the first. Sonic is the avatar while Shadow is a creation between Gerald and Vaatu (aka black doom) becoming like a “dark avatar”.

That’s about all I got of that one, tho it might just get absorbed into the previous version tbh. But yeah I might post a least more character designs later.

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Tell us more about the ATLA Au!!!!! Pretty please with a cherry on top! 🙏🍒❤️‍🔥

Well since you asked so nicely :]

So here’s what I’ve thought of so far regarding characters

- Sonic- air bender

- Tails-earth kingdom or fire nation boonies, non bender

- Amy- kyoshi warrior, non bender

- Knuckles- earth, wrestler *cough* the boulder

- Shadow- avatar, water tribe, elements come easy except air as it’s the element of freedom and letting go

- Rouge - fire nation rogue, non bender, blue spirit vibes

So now onto the different versions this first is a little more lighthearted and goofy like atla and the one I’ve given more thought to

Cut because it got long

In this version Shadow is the avatar and a very talented healer living with Gerald and Maria in one of the poles. Maria is still very sick, she and Gerold used to travel the world more when she was younger but had to stop as the the cold and quick access to healers helped slow her condition but never healing it. Luckily after adopting shadow and discovering his talent in bending Maria actually seemed to improve with his treatments. But then at sixteen we discover that shadow is the avatar and must journey to the other nations. Shads is not happy to leave Maria behind even with her condition improving it will surely decline without him. He makes a deal with the sages to be able to visit his tribe every couple of months to keep Maria’s sickness at bay (ie he wouldn’t have gone otherwise).

Anyway time passes shads is studying in the earth kingdom and is making his usual trip back home when finds his tribe had been under attack, there were many casualties including Maria and in his distress he ends up forsaking the world and closing himself off to it and going into the avatar state sealing himself and his village in ice forever trapping them in this moment.

Years (50) pass and a traveling monk, sonic, and his brother, tails, come across the frozen village and shadow, in his frozen state, not yet realizing it’s an actual mobian, in their travels. Tails gets very geeky and wants to do some exploration and excavation on the “perfectly preserved utopia”. (Sonic finds himself gravitating to the “statue” a lot) So they end up staying a while something happens and the ice breaks freeing the avatar. Shads still hates the world and would prefer to go back in ice but can’t call upon the avatar state again. As someone who’s very drawn to the world Sonic is determined to reignite his love for the world meanwhile shadow can’t figure out why this air bender won’t leave him alone. They part ways a lot but somehow always manage to run into each other.

Still working on the antagonist side of things

Fun facts:

Maria is the one who liked to string beads into his quills and made his other hair accessories (even if it was a bit more feminine) and he never stoped wearing them

Shadow is also a very talented ice/speed skater and uses it and a combination of the other elements to help him in his races with Sonic

Even with avatar abilities he sometimes still has trouble with beating sonic in a race

Sonic has been an air bending master from a young age and prefers to travel the world

Sonic does become his air bending teacher

Alright in this next version I think it’s a little more Korra like and a bit more true to sonic canon but I haven’t put too much thought to it, the two have fairly similar characteristics to the first. Sonic is the avatar while Shadow is a creation between Gerald and Vaatu (aka black doom) becoming like a “dark avatar”.

That’s about all I got of that one, tho it might just get absorbed into the previous version tbh. But yeah I might post a least more character designs later.

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Here we have the current au that’s in my head featuring air nomad Sonic and water tribe Shadow. Might draw more of the characters later but if anyone’s interested in the lore I’m cooking up…… I currently have two versions running through my head.

Honestly quite proud of how these have been turning out as someone who only draws people.

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Wow people really like the gay hedgehogs….